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The Therapist at Work: Personal Factors Affecting the Analytic Process

Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781855759893 Author(s): Dimitris Anastasopoulos Format: Paperback Year: 2004 Edition: 1st Publisher: Karnac Books Dimensions: 148 x 230 x 15 (w x l x h) Pages: 152 Series: European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Sector

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Description: Dimitris Anastasopoulos and Evagelos Papanicolaou have gathered together a distinguished group of contributors to focus on the therapist's participation in therapy and the influence of personal factors on the therapeutic relationship. The majority of the papers grew out of the proceedings of the fourth EFPP Congress of the Adults Section in 2000 and explore the therapist-patient relationship with the emphasis on the influence of the therapist as opposed to that of the patient. Topics discussed in this collection include the impact of the patient on the analyst, how the analyst's clinical theory and personal philosophy affect the analytic process, the effect of the therapist's dreams on the therapeutic process, the psychoanalyst's influence on the collaborative process, and intersubjective phenomena and emotional exchange in the psychoanalytic process. Certain papers focus mainly on theory while others are more clinically-oriented. This volume presents an overview of historic and current thinking and aims to generate yet more discussion on this evolving and important issue. It will be of interest to practicing and training psychotherapists. 'The EFPP monograph series has established itself as an important source of high- quality psychoanalytic psychotherapy papers. This volume adds to its gro